Perkasie Says Fix Up Curbs, Sidewalks 60 Residents To Get The Word

More than 60 Perkasie residents will be receiving notice shortly that they must upgrade or install curbing and sidewalks in front of their homes.

As part of long-range program instituted by the borough last year, council agreed this week to notify residents whose sidewalks and curbs are considered unsafe or not meeting borough standards.

In other action this week, council said a change in garbage collection which will affect four businesses in the community.

After hearing complaints over lack of formal notification of the change from Jay Godshall, owner of Godshall's Pharmacy - one of the affected businesses - council announced garbage collection would take place only at the edge of properties.

Council said a long-standing informal practice of collecting garbage from near the buildings of Godshall's, Shelly & Fenstermacher Market, Bill's Auto Service and Bergey's Gas Station, would cease.

Borough refuse trucks had to back onto these properties to collect their garbage, according to council members.

Godshall appeared before council not to complain of the change, he said, but to protest the lack of notification from the borough to the affected parties.